T'eng-ch'ung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 騰衝／腾冲 (Téngchōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻêng²-chʻung¹.

Proper noun

T'eng-ch'ung

1. Alternative form of Tengchong
   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[1], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 304:

     Most of the people have migrated from Lung-ling and to a lesser extent from T'eng-ch'ung. The people are simple and primitive, and the females all bind their feet.

   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, edited by Christopher L. Salter, Atlas of China‎^[2], McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 170:

     K'un-ming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, is also a communication center, with highways leading to Szechwan Province in the north, to Kuei-yang in the east, and, through Ta-li and Hsia-kuan in western Yunnan to the important frontier town of T'eng-ch'ung in the west.

   • 1988 January, Andrew D. W. Forbes, “History of Panglong, 1875-1900: A 'Panthay' (Chinese Muslim) Settlement in the Burmese Wa States”, in The Muslim World‎^[3], volume 78, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 38–50:

     ² Defeated Yunnanese Muslim troops and bands of freebooters of indeterminate origin did, however, trouble the northern and eastern Shan States, for example, Li Kuo-lun, the rebel Muslim governor (Ch Ta-ssu-k'ung) of T'eng-ch'ung (Momien), who fled to the Shan States with many of his followers, here he joined forces with a local rebel, Sang Hai, and "the result was the absolute ruin of the great state of Hsen-wi[.]"